The container mystery
Where it is, what is in it and when it lands are on the shipment — not in a forwarder’s email you have to go looking for.
Freight
Sold before it lands.
Every shipment tracked by sea or air — vessels, ETDs, ETAs and the orders packed inside — with stock in transit visible and bookable before it exists on a shelf. Freight and duty land onto the goods they belong to, so margin is real the day it arrives.
Where it sits
One chain, this link.
Every flow in Weavwork is a view of the same connected record — so nothing here is a module bolted on beside the others.
- StyleSKU tree · BOM
- Samplerounds · specs
- Ordergrid · price list
- Production managementplan · WIP · QC
- Shipmentvessel · ETA
- Warehousepick · pack · count
- Accountingfreight · duty · landed cost
The shipment carries the production orders inside it and hands them to the warehouse at receipt. Its costs are not a separate bill to reconcile later: freight, duty and clearance land onto the goods on that shipment, so landed cost per unit is derived the day it arrives.
How it runs
Step by step, on one record.
- 01Book the shipment
A shipment is raised against the production orders going into it — vessel or flight, forwarder, ETD, ETA, and the cartons packed inside. The shipping documents file themselves against it.
- 02Track it without asking
ETAs and milestones come in from your forwarder or carrier, and the agent links shipment numbers from the mill’s and the factory’s emails to the right record.
- 03Sell in transit
Stock on the water is visible and allocatable, so a container that has not landed can already be sold against — with a date the customer can rely on.
- 04Land it, once
Receipt closes the loop: quantities reconcile, freight, duty and clearance land onto the goods, and landed cost per unit is a derived number rather than an estimate. What happens on the floor from there is fulfilment’s job, on the same record.
A week with it
What it looks like on a Wednesday.
Three days from one week, on the sample data that runs through this site.
Monday
SH-0492 sails
Cat Lai to Brisbane, MV Meridian 12, PO-2041 and PO-2038 inside — 5,400 pieces. The forwarder’s booking, the packing list and the bill of lading file themselves against it.
Wednesday
Sold on the water
Northline’s back-order is booked against the container and the portal shows them 4 October — a date taken from the vessel, not from an optimistic guess.
Friday
It lands, once
Receipt reconciles 5,400 pieces, freight and duty land onto the goods, landed cost updates to $18.42 a unit, and every order waiting on that stock releases to pick.
What it removes
The jobs that stop existing.
Landed-cost guesswork
Freight, duty and clearance land onto the goods they belong to, so margin is real rather than estimated.
The date you had to hedge
Stock on the water is allocatable, so a container that has not landed can be promised on with a date the floor can hold.
Who works in it
The same record, three seats.
Logistics
Every shipment by sea and air with its milestones, documents and cartons — and the forwarder’s updates without asking.
Sales
Stock in transit you can sell against, with a date the customer can hold you to.
Finance
Freight, duty and clearance landed onto the goods they belong to, so margin is real.
Questions
The ones we get asked.
Where does freight end and fulfilment begin?
At receipt. Freight owns the shipment — the vessel, the documents, the ETA and the costs landing onto the goods. What happens to the stock after it is receipted is on the fulfilment page, and it is the same record throughout.
Does it work for air and sea?
Both, and for a courier consignment too. The shipment is the same record; only its milestones differ.
How do landed costs work?
Freight, duty and clearance charges are landed onto the goods on the shipment, and flow into the per-unit cost that margins are calculated on.
Can customers see where their order is?
The customer portal shows the shipment and its ETA against their order, so the question answers itself.
Keep going
Two more flows, and the whole product.
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